Cartwright/Oppenheim

Cartwright/Oppenheim: A Mumbai of the Mind

by Jerry D'Souza
April 8, 2004

Harmony and modality can make for strange bedfellows. The blending of Indian and Western music is not easy, given the streams from which they spring. The parallel streams in which the two flow becomes apparent on this recording when the Indian musicians bring their own rhythm into play, and Katharine Cartwright and Richard Oppenheim invest a Western attitude that for the most part does not assimilate.

Vocalist Cartwright and sax man Oppenheim recorded the music in Mumbai, India ...